CaseLight2001
Rockford, IL, USA
Over a hill we had seen 4 or 5 lights in a semi-circle. They were flashing in unison from yellow to white. After about 2 minutes they
Report quality: High81/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-18
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rockford-il-2001-87fd3b
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 7 Rockford, IL reports filed in March 2001.
In context
- Rockford, IL shows up 133 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Illinois in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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